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The case of the cancerous stomach

Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.

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Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids

This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.

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The stranger who started an epidemic

New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.

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How shame makes us sick

The fight-or-flight response can have long-term consequences for our bodies if left unchecked. Lucia Osborne-Crowley investigates how shame and trauma are connected, and how both can lead to chronic ill health.

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  • Diseases of the stomach
  • On animal chemistry in its application to stomach and renal diseases / by H. Bence Jones.
  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures all diseases of the stomach, liver & blood : small doses, prompt effect.
  • Dr. Grosvenor's Liveraid : cures all diseases of the stomach, liver & blood : small doses, prompt effect.
  • The water-cure. Stomach complaints and drug diseases, their causes, consequences, and cure by water, air, exercise, and diet / With an engraving of Napoleon in the second stage of cancer of the stomach. To which is appended two letters to Dr. Hastings of Worcester, on the results of the water-cure at Malvern [in reply to attacks by the latter. By James Wilson.
  • Curd ball preventative : a safe and effectual preventative of wool or curd ball in sheep and lambs and hair balls in calves : it instantly arrests inflammatory diseases of the stomach and intestines : general directions...
  • A diseased stomach. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A diseased stomach and oesophagus. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A diseased stomach, showing signs of cancer. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A diseased stomach, showing signs of cancer. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
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